On arrival in China from abroad,
you have to go through the following procedures,
just as in other countries.

Hygienic Quarantine

Passengers entering or leaving
China are subject to hygienic inspection by
border quarantine offices at ports opened
to foreigners.

Those who carry such unusual articles
as microorganisms, human body tissues, biological
products, and blood and its products, should
declare to the quarantine department, and
submit these articles to quarantine inspections.
Those who have brought, or consigned for shipment,
luggage or objects which may cause the spread
of contagious diseases should accept quarantine
inspections. The quarantine inspection department
is obliged to handle or destroy foodstuffs,
drinks and aquatic products contaminated by
contagious diseases.

Passengers from areas infested
with yellow fever should, when entering China,
present to the quarantine department effective
certificates showing that they have been inoculated
against yellow fever. Those who have failed
to present valid certificates shall be retained
for observation for six days beginning from
the day they left the infested area, or they
shall be inoculated and retained until the
certificates come into effect.

It is the task of the Chinese
quarantine department to deny entry to foreigners
suffering AIDS, venereal diseases, leprosy,
mental diseases and open tuberculosis.

Animals and plants, their products,
and other quarantine objects from countries
and regions infested by infectious diseases;

Animal carcasses;

Soil.

Animals and plants and related
products and other quarantine articles, when
being brought into China, should be declared
to the Customs and submitted to inspection by
the border quarantine department. Those who
bring animals into China should hold quarantine
and other certificates issued by original country
or region of departure.

Each passenger is allowed to bring
one pet into China, and such pets should be
accompanied by quarantine and hydrophobia
immunity certificates issued by the quarantine
authorities of the original country or region.

Frontier Inspection

During this procedure, you are required to fill
in Entry Registration Cards, and present your
passport, visa and quarantine certificates for
inspection. The frontier inspection station
has the right to forbid the personnel with any
of the following circumstances to enter China:

Those who hold no exit-entry
certificates

Holders of invalid, false,
altered exit-entry certificates

Holders of other persons' certificates

Those who refuse to receive
the health check and the frontier inspection

Those who fail to pass through
the port specified

Those who are forbidden to
enter by the Ministry of Public Security
of the State Council and the Ministry of
State Security

Those who are not permitted
according to the Chinese laws and administrative
regulations

Luggage Check

For the sake of maintaining social
safety, the frontier inspection station has
the right to check all the luggage brought
into China.

Old and waste materials, food,
micro-organisms, biological products, portions
of human body, blood or its products, or animals
that may spread infectious diseases among
humans are forbidden to enter. Any printed
material, film, tapes that are 'detrimental
to China's politics, economy, culture and
ethics' are also forbidden to bring into China.
Also during this process, customs declaration
will be made. And only when you pass all the
procedures that you really and legally enter
China.